“ Svijet je školski ravnatelj koji se bavi tvojim manama. Ne mislim u nekom u nekom mističnom ili Isusovom smislu. Nego prije na foru da se uporno spotičeš preko neke skrivene stube, bez kraja i konca,… David Mitchell
“ So how does it feel? is the reasonable question you hear a lot when your book completes the long ascent from production purgatory to movieplex. David Mitchell
“ See, I thinked, Meronym knows a lot 'bout Smart an' life but Valleysmen know more 'bout death. David Mitchell
“ Scholars discern motions of history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs contrary, however. To wit: history admits no rules, only outcome… David Mitchell
“ Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late, but it's the first thing I think of when I wake, and the last thing I think of before I fall asleep, even if… David Mitchell
“ Problem was, all this is new. In English at school we study a grammar book by a man named Ronald Rideout, read Cider with Rosie, do debates on fox-hunting and memorize ‘I Must Go Down to the Seas Agai… David Mitchell
“ Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer i… David Mitchell
“ Pero si sabías que todo era un montaje, ¿por qué te prestaste a colaborar?¿Por qué se presta todo mártir a colaborar con su Judas? Porque atisba un objetivo más elevado. David Mitchell
“ Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war. David Mitchell
“ Old Father Timothy offers this advice to his younger readers, included for free in the price of this memoir: conduct your life in such a way that, when you train breaks down in the eve of you years, y… David Mitchell
“ Most cities are nouns, but New York is a verb. What might Beunas Yerbas be, I wonder?''A string of adjectives and conjunctions?''Or an expletive? David Mitchell
“ Look at that! Life’s more science-fictiony by the day. It’s not just that you get old and your kids leave; it’s that the world zooms away and leaves you hankering for whatever decade you felt most com… David Mitchell
“ Look around. Walk. Find a cheap bed. Eat what the locals eat. Find a cheap beer. Try not to get fleeced. Talk. Pick up a few words in the local lingo. Just BE there, y'know? Sometimes, Brubeck bites i… David Mitchell
“ Like the best songs, you can't see the next line coming, but once it's sung, how else could it have gone? David Mitchell
“ In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. Is this the doom written within our nature? If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth & claw, i… David Mitchell
“ If one will just be still, shut up, and --lo, behold, the world'll sift through one's ideas for one, esp. in a grimy London railway station. David Mitchell
“ If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished. David Mitchell
“ I'm shoutin' back more'n forty long years at myself, yay,...Oy, list'n! Times are you're weak 'gainst the world! Times are you can't do nothin'! That ain't your fault, it's this busted world's fault i… David Mitchell
